Three Allen first responders reflected on how May 6 unfolded, how years of preparation steeled them for the unprecedented, and how tragedy spurred a...
A year after confronting a mass shooting in their city, three first responders reflect on how tragedy taught them to lean on their training and then on each other.
Daniel Williams, an Allen Fire division chief, said training reduces an active shooter response into three goals: Stop the killing, stop the dying and evacuate rapidly. Chance allowed for swift completion of the first goal, and with first responders arriving in droves from Graham’s funeral, they tended to the wounded just as fast.
Then there was a shift. The cadence and pitch of the officer tracking down the gunman changed from elevated to quiet, Wirstrom said. “It doesn’t matter about all the preparation and resources if you don’t have individuals willing to make that type of sacrifice for their community,” Boyd said.After the shooter was declared dead, Wirstrom said he went against conventional wisdom by splitting his team in two, with half on tactical medical work
As Wirstrom ran from point to point, checking on different teams, he was repeatedly told everything that needed to be done was taken care of.People are escorted outside of the Allen Premium Outlets mall after a shooting on Saturday, May 6, 2023, in Allen, Texas.
“We asked them to do impossible things that day and they did it,” Williams said. “One of the things that’s very difficult to process is being able to muddle through something that you’re not in charge of, something that you can’t control, something that you can’t contain.”
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